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The Young Oxford Book of Nightmares ed. Dennis Pepper (Oxford University Press, September 2000, 978-0-19-278179-6, £12.99, viii+214pp, hc, an, cover by George Smith)     Details taken from online listing. vii · Introduction · Dennis Pepper · in 1 · Mason’s Life · Kingsley Amis · ss The Sunday Times 1972 5 · Seafood · Francis Beckett · ss 8 · Nightmare in Blue · Fredric Brown · vi The Dude May 1961 11 · Dream Ghost · Sydney J. Bounds · ss The Eighth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1976 18 · The Lost Child · John Burke · ss Magpie November 1952 29 · The Gargles · Michael Chislett · ss 41 · Blood Will Cry Out · J. J. Curle · ss Upon the Midnight ed. R. C. Bull, Macdonald, 1957, as “Awake, Asleep, Awake” 52 · Nightmare · Berlie Doherty · ss Beware! Beware! ed. Jean Richardson, Hamish Hamilton, 1987 63 · The Big Wind · Marien Dreyer · ss Summer’s Tales 1 ed. Kylie Tennant, Macmillan Australia, 1964 75 · Four Twenty-Four Precisely · John Edgell · ss 1970 79 · S. Q. · Adèle Geras · ss 84 · Uncle Walter · John Gordon · ss The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings ed. Dennis Pepper, Oxford University Press, 1997 93 · Dream Fountain · Dennis Hamley · ss 102 · Frisky · Kenneth Ireland · ss 110 · The White-Washed Room · Gerald Kersh · ss Men Without Bones by Gerald Kersh, Heinemann, 1955 115 · Scottish Melody · Sheila Lavelle · ss 127 · Mrs. Beale and Trixie · Christopher Leach · ss 1980 138 · Nightmare · Morgan Llywelyn · ss 1996 146 · The Front Room · Michelle Magorian · ss They Wait, and Other Spine Chillers ed. Lance Salway, Pepper Press, 1983 158 · Dream Justice · E. W. Mayo · vi Weird Tales February 1932 161 · The Patch · Philip Murray · ss Shudders, Philip Allan, 1932 164 · The Eyes · Kit Pearson · ss Don’t Read This!, Front Street, 1998 179 · The Water Mill · Alison Prince · ss 189 · Gone · Sue Welford · ss 199 · Dark Zone · Ed Williams · vi Horrors! 365 Scary Stories ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble, 1998 202 · The Corpse Will Walk · Carolyn Swift · ss 1994 213 · Badnight Story · Robert Scott · ss

The Young Oxford Book of Timewarp Stories ed. Dennis Pepper (Oxford University Press, November 2001, 0-19-278167-7, £7.99, viii+215pp, tp, an)     Young-adult anthology of 21 stories (3 original). Authors include Anderson, Finney, Harrison, Bradbury, Harrison, and Fredric Brown. vii · Introduction · Dennis Pepper · in 1 · My Object All Sublime · Poul Anderson · ss Galaxy Magazine June 1961 11 · They Live Forever · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · ss Satellite Science Fiction March 1959 19 · Timestorm · Steve Bowkett · ss 31 · A Sound of Thunder · Ray Bradbury · ss Collier’s June 28 1952 45 · Vengeance Fleet · Fredric Brown · vi Super Science Stories July 1950, as “Vengeance, Unlimited” 48 · All the Time in the World · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Startling Stories July 1952 A061 · …And Three to Go · Ken Cowley · ss Miscellany Macabre: Tales of the Unknown by Ken Cowley, British Fantasy Society, 1999 71 · Room 409 · Nance Donkin · ss A Handful of Ghosts ed. Barbara Ker Wilson, Knight Books, 1976 80 · The Love Letter · Jack Finney · ss The Saturday Evening Post August 1 1959 94 · If · Harry Harrison · ss If February 1969, as “Praiseworthy Saur” 101 · Time Shift · Kenneth Ireland · ss 109 · The Brighton Monster [Adze] · Gerald Kersh · ss The Saturday Evening Post February 21 1948, as “The Monster” 123 · Let’s Go to Golgotha! · Garry Kilworth · ss Sunday Times Weekly Review December 15 1974 136 · What Time Is It? · Rita Lamb · ss 139 · The Silver Box · Louise Lawrence · nv A Quiver of Ghosts ed. Aidan Chambers, The Bodley Head, 1987 159 · The Picnic · Penelope Lively · ss Young Winter’s Tales 6 ed. M. R. Hodgkin, Macmillan UK, 1975 173 · The Man from When · Dannie Plachta · vi If July 1966 175 · Fire, Fire · Alison Prince · ss A Haunting Refrain by Alison Prince, Methuen, 1988 186 · Master Ghost and I · Barbara Softly · ss Haunting Tales ed. Barbara Ireson, Faber and Faber, 1973 205 · The Doctor · Ted Thomas · ss Orbit 2 ed. Damon Knight, Putnam, 1967 214 · The Choice · Wayland Hilton-Young · vi Punch March 19 1952 215 · Acknowledgements · [uncredited] · ms

The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte (Subterranean Press, March 2010, 978-1-59606-292-4, $125.00, 327pp, hc, n., cover by Vincent Chong)     Reprint (Harcourt Brace 1997) literary fantasy novel of bibliophiles and Satanists. Translated by Sonia Soto from the Spanish (1993). This is a signed, limited edition of 500 with color illustrations by Vincent Chong; a lettered edition of 26 is also available.

Racing Can Be Murder ed. Tony Perona & Brenda R. Stewart--- see under Brenda R. Stewart.

The Best American Short Stories 2012 ed. Tom Perotta & Heidi Pitlor (Houghton Mifflin, 2012, 978-0-547-24209-5, $28.00, xix+356pp, hc, an) ix · Foreword · Heidi Pitlor · fw xii · Introduction · Tom Perotta · in 1 · The Last Speaker of the Language · Carol Anshaw · ss New Ohio Review #10, Fall 2011 16 · Pilgrim Life · Taylor Antrim · nv American Short Fiction #53, 2011 40 · What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank · Nathan Englander · nv The New Yorker December 12 2011 61 · The Other Place · Mary Gaitskill · ss The New Yorker February 14/February 21 2011 75 · North Country · Roxane Gay · ss Hobart #12, April 2011 87 · Paramour · Jennifer Haigh · ss Ploughshares Winter 2011/2012 97 · Navigators · Mike Meginnis · ss Hobart #12, April 2011 108 · Miracle Polish · Steven Millhauser · ss The New Yorker November 14 2011 122 · Axis · Alice Munro · ss The New Yorker January 31 2011 138 · Volcano · Lawrence Osborne · ss Tin House Spring 2011 152 · Diem Perdidi · Julie Otsuka · ss Granta #117, Autumn 2011 162 · Honeydew · Edith Pearlman · ss Orion September/October 2011 174 · Occupational Hazard · Angela Pneuman · nv Ploughshares Spring 2011 196 · Beautiful Monsters · Eric Puchner · ss Tin House Fall 2011 212 · Tenth of December · George Saunders · nv The New Yorker October 31 2011 236 · The Sex Lives of African Girls · Taiye Selasi · nv Granta #115, Spring 2011 268 · Alive · Sharon Solwitz · ss Fifth Wednesday Journal #8, 2012 281 · M&M World · Kate Walbert · ss The New Yorker May 30 2011 294 · Anything Helps · Jess Walter · ss McSweeney’s #39, 2011 306 · What’s Important Is Feeling · Adam Wilson · ss The Paris Review #199, Winter 2011 325 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg 338 · 100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2011 · [uncredited] · bi 342 · Editorial Addresses of American and Canadian Magazines Publishing Short Stories · [uncredited] · ms

Survival Printout ed. Robert Perrault, Leonard Allison & Leonard Jenkin--- see under Total Effect.

East of Suez by A. Perrin (Anthony Treherne & Co. Limited, 1901, 311pp, hc, co) 1 · Beynon, of the Irrigation Department · A. Perrin · ss The Windsor Magazine November 1896 55 · The Tiger-Charm · A. Perrin · ss 81 · A Perverted Punishment · A. Perrin · ss The Windsor Magazine September 1897 107 · An Eastern Echo · A. Perrin · ss 127 · A Man’s Theory · A. Perrin · ss 141 · The Summoning of Arnold · A. Perrin · ss 155 · In the Next Room · A. Perrin · ss The Belgravia Annual Summer 1893 171 · The White Tiger · A. Perrin · ss 189 · Caulfield’s Crime · A. Perrin · ss The Belgravia Annual Christmas 1892 211 · The Fakirs’ Island · A. Perrin · ss 231 · The Belief of Bhagwan, Bearer · A. Perrin · ss 249 · “In the Court of Conscience” · A. Perrin · ss 271 · Chunia, Ayah · A. Perrin · ss 287 · The Biscobra · A. Perrin · ss

Death by Dickens ed. Anne Perry (Berkley Prime Crime, March 2004, 0-425-19420-5, $23.95, 280pp, hc, oa, cover by Yuan Lee)     Associational original anthology of 11 mystery stories inspired by the works of Dickens, including two pieces by Carole Nelson Douglas and Lillian Stewart Carl based on A Christmas Carol, and a pre-vampire “Jonathan Barrett” story by P.N. Elrod. · Introduction · Anne Perry · in 5 · A Stake of Holly · Lillian Stewart Carl · nv 29 · Mr. Pickwick vs. the Body Snatchers · Bill Crider · ss 49 · Death in Dover · P. N. Elrod · nv 80 · The House of the Red Candle · Martin Edwards · nv 102 · A Long and Constant Courtship · Carolyn Wheat · nv 124 · Miss Haversham Regrets · Marcia Talley · ss 140 · Scrogged: A Cyber Christmas Carol · Carole Nelson Douglas · nv 176 · The Passing Shadow · Peter Tremayne · nv 200 · Fagin’s Revenge · Brendan DuBois · nv 225 · Next Christmas at Dingley Dell · Gillian Linscott · nv 246 · A Tale of One City · Anne Perry · nv

Malice Domestic 6 ed. Anne Perry (Pocket, April 1997, 0-671-89633-4, $5.99, 271pp, pb, oa)     Original anthology of 17 “cosy” mystery stories. ix · A Dance with Life, Death… and Laughter · Anne Perry · in 1 · The Corbett Correspondence · Edward Marston & Peter Lovesey · ss 17 · Like to Die [C(hristopher) D(ennis) Sloan] · Catherine Aird · ss 28 · Immortality [Sebastian Grady] · Jon L. Breen · ss 48 · Ways to Kill a Cat · Simon Brett · nv 75 · Mea Culpa · Jan Burke · nv 98 · The Gentleman’s Gentleman · Dorothy Cannell · nv 124 · Malice Among Friends · Sarah Caudwell · vi 128 · True Confessions · Kate Charles · ss 141 · Abstain from Beans · Lindsey Davis · ss Perfectly Criminal ed. Martin Edwards, Severn House, 1996 160 · Time’s Wingéd Chariot · Marjorie Eccles · ss 166 · Alternative Reality · Anthea Fraser · ss 180 · Come Sable Night · Kerry Greenwood · ss 194 · Murder Mid-Atlantic · Edward Marston · ss 211 · City Boy · Susan Moody · ss 225 · One in Every Family · Betty Nathan · ss 238 · The Two Ladies of Rose Cottage · Peter Robinson · ss 256 · Sweet Fruition · David Williams · ss

Odd Partners ed. Anne Perry (Ballantine, April 23, 2019, 978-1-5247-9935-9, $28.00, 368pp, hc, oa)     Details taken from Table of Contents. vii · Introduction · Anne Perry · in 3 · Reconciliation · Anne Perry · ss 21 · The Nature of the Beast · William Kent Krueger · ss 35 · Sad Onions [Hap Collins & Leonard Pine] · Joe R. Lansdale · nv 54 · The Wagatha Labsy Secret Dogtective Alliance: A Dog Noir Story · Jacqueline Winspear · ss 78 · Glock, Paper, Scissors · Shelley Costa · ss 86 · Blood Money [Inspector Ian Rutledge] · Charles Todd · ss 101 · The Violins Played Before Junshan · Lou Kemp · ss 120 · What Ever Happened to Lorna Winters? · Lisa Morton · ss 137 · Oglethorpe’s Camera · Claire Ortlada · ss 154 · The Last Game · Robert Dugoni · ss 169 · No 11 Squatter · Adele Polomski · ss 181 · A Cold Spell · Mark Thielman · ss 201 · What Would Nora Do? · Georgia Jeffries · ss 214 · Hector’s Bees · Amanda Witt · ss 233 · Georgia in the Wind · William Frank · ss 250 · From Four Till Late [Nick Travers] · Ace Atkins · ss 267 · Bite Out of Crime · Allison Brennan · nv 297 · Songbird Blues · Stephen Ross · ss 317 · Security · Jeffery Deaver · nv

Thou Shalt Not Kill ed. Anne Perry (Carroll & Graf, 2005, 0-7867-1575-8, $15.95, 299pp, tp, oa)     Original anthology of 15 biblical mystery stories. ix · Introduction · Anne Perry · in 1 · Cain Was Innocent · Simon Brett · nv 25 · Way Down in Egypt’s Land · Lillian Stewart Carl · nv 49 · The Man on the Cross · Bill Crider · ss 67 · Judith · Judith Cutler · ss 77 · Strangers in a Strange Land · Carole Nelson Douglas · nv 103 · The Temptation of King David · Brendan DuBois · nv 133 · The People Outside · Martin Edwards · nv 155 · A Blessing of Frogs · Gillian Linscott · nv 177 · Corpus Christi · Edward Marston · ss 193 · Fear and Trembling [Father Dowling] · Ralph McInerny · ss 211 · The Deadly Bride · Sharan Newman · nv 229 · Birthday Dance · Peter Robinson · ss 241 · The Queen Is Dead, Long Live the Queen · Marcia Talley · ss 251 · Does God Obey His Own Law? [Sister Fidelma] · Peter Tremayne · nv 275 · Lost Causes · Anne Perry · ss 295 · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg

Pandemonium: Stories of the Smoke ed. Anne C. Perry & Jared Shurin (Jurassic London, April 2012, 978-0-9570392-6-1, £14.99, 228pp, hc, oa)     A limited edition of 100 copies. Details taken from online listing. · The Nightmare City · Christopher Fowler · in · A Brief History of the Great Pubs of London · Lavie Tidhar · ss · A Dance of Dust and Life · Aliette de Bodard · ss · Martin Citywit · Adam Roberts · ss · Inspector Bucket Investigates · Sarah Lotz · ss · Uncle Smoke · Archie Black · ss · Victory Year · Alexis Kennedy · ss · The Collection · Esther Saxey · ss · An Unburdening of the Soul · David Thomas Moore · ss · Necropolis · Jonathan Green · ss · The Knowledge · Rebecca Levene · ss · Londoner · Jenni van der Merwe · ss · The Unkindness of Ravens · Glen Mehn · ss · The Pickwick Syndrome · Kaaron Warren · ss · The Hound of Henry Hortinger · Michelle Goldsmith · ss · Aye, There’s the Twist · James Wallis · ss · The City of the Absent · Charles Dickens · ss Household Words July 18 1863, as “untitled (“When I think I deserve particularly well of myself”)” · Bullseye · Sarah Anne Langton · ss · Cuckoo · David Thomas Moore · ss